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All-in-one printers are ideal for the small office or even an individual cubicle. These units work as printers, copiers, scanners and fax machines, but they take up the space of just one unit. And while color laser printers generally grab all the headlines these days, the big monochrome lasers still do the bulk of the printing in most offices, mainly because printing in monochrome is still cheaper and faster than color printing.

Fans plug into Boston Marathon Web site as RFID system reports realtime data

When 20,000 athletes hit the road for the 108th running of the Boston Marathon, their family, friends and fans will be able to track their progress thanks in part to Hewlett-Packard technology implemented by a local solution provider.

First there was Janet Jackson, now comes Novell. Chris Stone, Novell's co-chairman, exhibited some mock Novell ads at last week's MySQL users conference in Orlando, Fla. One showed a harried and hairy-looking fellow with a certain finger displaced in his nose and the wording: "The finger. What you can give your competition now that Novell is in the Linux business."

IP-based solutions are increasingly being used as alternatives to the public switched telephone network (PSTN). IP-based solutions are a cheaper alternative to traditional telephone options and, currently, many back-office aspects of IP telephony such as billing, charging and roaming are not subject to local or government regulations.

External hard drives help meet the security needs of the government, medical and financial verticals since they can be locked away at the end of the day. In the medical, graphical, development, engineering, videography and financial fields they also allow large files and datasets to be passed between users and workstations easily.

India's third-largest software exporter, Wipro, said Friday that its revenue for the latest fiscal year surpassed US$1 billion for the first time on rising orders from American companies--giving another boost to one of the country's biggest industries.

Sun Microsystems' surprise hardware reorganization this week drew a positive response from channel players, with some partners saying they hope the changes will sharpen the vendor's focus on server issues.

Buoyed by growth across nearly all of IBM's business units, company CFO John Joyce said this week that Big Blue's first-quarter financial performance is a clear indicator that customers are finally spending again on IT systems and infrastructure.

The recently beleaguered Sun Microsystems reported heavy losses for its fiscal 2004 third quarter on Thursday, April 15. The disappointing results actually met analysts' expectations but showed how much the company has struggled of late as it tries to right its struggling server business and deal with layoffs and reorganization at its top levels.

Confirming it missed expectations in its flagship mobile phones unit, Nokia on Friday reported lower earnings and sales for the first quarter and lowered forecasts for the second quarter amid increased competition from American and Asian rivals.

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